Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?

[drlegendre .]

"It is interesting that the MX-80 was copied by several other printer
manufactures."

The first printer I owned, ca. 1983, was a BMC BX-80. This printer was
marketed as an "Epson Compatible", and for my purposes, it most certainly
was. Driven by C-64 via the Cardco Card/?+G interface, it was capable of
several standard text & imprint modes (draft, std, ital, ul, bold, etc),
the CBM keyboard graphics characters and bitmap graphic images.

It may also have printed custom C-64 character sets..?

In any event, that printer served me flawlessly for several years until I
moved on to bigger & better things. So who was BMC, anyway? I also happen
to own a nice little green-screen monitor with their brand on it. It's
clearly based on a B&W TV case & chassis, that lacks tuning, antenna
connections, speaker and so on - in favor of a single RCA composite input.
Monitor still works great, it's my go-to for old home computers.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 8:47 AM, dwight <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:

> It is interesting that the MX-80 was copied by several other
>
> printer manufactures. For a while, the term MX-80 compatible
>
> was an important selling feature.
>
> The Canon Cat had configurations for many different Canon printers
>
> built in, from daisy wheel to bubble jet. It had one extra configuration
>
> called 'common printer' and guess which printer that is. The MX-80!
>
> Dwight
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Scott Kevill <
> scott at kevill.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 6:49:49 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?
>
> Just wanted to say thanks for doing this scan (and of course all the other
> great work you do), Al, the quality was fantastic.
>
> For anyone else that didn't notice this (or forgot to check back), it's at:
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/epson/
> printer/P80000001A_MX-80_Technical_Manual.pdf
>
> And it's much more readable (especially the diagrams).
>
> Scott.
>
> On 06/11/2016, at 1:59 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>
> > A scan I did this morning will be up on bitsavers by 13:00 PDT
> >
> > On 11/5/16 9:36 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
> >> They said they were working on it..
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Keven
> >>> Miller
> >>> Sent: 05 November 2016 13:04
> >>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> >>> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?
> >>>
> >>> I tried this link this morning (from Utah US) and got the manual.
> >>> So the link must have gotten fixed.
> >>>
> >>> I've placed here just in case:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.3kranger.com/download/epson_-_mx-
> >>> 80_dot_matrix_printer_-_technical_manual.pdf
> >>>
> >>> Keven Miller
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Scott Kevill" <scott at kevill.com>
> >>> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> >>> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> >>> Sent: Sat 05 Nov 2016 01:24 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 05/11/2016, at 4:29 AM, Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Does anyone have a scan of the MX-80 Dot Matrix Printer Technical
> >>> Manual?
> >>>>
> >>>> It's apparently intended to be available here:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/39747/Epson-MX-80-Dot-
> >>> Matrix-Printer-Technical-Manual/
> >>>> but I was unable to actually download it.
>
>